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A great example of outside-in testing from Ruby Tapas January 15, 2014 Update: Avdi has generously made the Outside-In episode of Ruby Tapas embeddable for this post–see below. Thanks, Avdi! Once you know the basic mechanics of testing, how do you bring it all together into a consistent testing habit or routine? I get asked this a lot by people who’ve recently finished Everday Rails Testing with RSpec or are generally still getting comfortable with this facet of development. While there are a number of approaches, I like to go outside-in by starting with a high-level spec, using it to drive the desired behavior of my software, and dropping down to unit tests to suss out the finer details of a feature. It’s an organic process, to be sure, and one that can take some practice before becoming second nature. Lately I’ve been catching up on Ruby Tapas , Avdi Grimm’s excellent se...